Beirut battle delays efforts to free Yanks
Archbishop Waite, envoy to free American hostages in Lebanon, was pinned down by gunfire as fighting intensified between Amal and Progressive Socialist Party factions. He urged families to stay brave while noting progress and a long road ahead. At least five killed and 32 wounded. Waite delayed plans to fly to Cyprus and then New York for hostage crisis briefings.
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Lebanon
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Archbishop of Canterbury
Waite
Associated Press
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Islamic Druse
Progressive Socialist Party
Larnaca
Cyprus
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U.S
London
Islamic Jihad
Kuwait
French agents jailed in New Zealand for Greenpeace bombing
In Auckland the high court gave Maj. Alain Mafart and Capt. Dominique Prieur 10 years for manslaughter and 7 more for willful damage to Rain bow Warrior, both sentences to run concurrently with backdated start to July 15. Parole possible after five years.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Greenpeace
Alain Mafart
Dominique Prieur
Roland Davison
Mururoa Atoll
South Pacific
Fernando Pereira
Netherlands
Davison
Family signs over custody in complex adoption case
Sherry King signed over custody to her sister Carole Jalbert weeks after aiding a surrogate scenario in which King conceived with her brother in law. The ceremony left the Jalbert family celebrating a new legal aunt for 2 week old Kristen Jennifer. Emmylou Harris wed producer Paul Kennerley in Baltimore two weeks ago. Anthony Lukas won the 1985 American Book Award for Common Ground. Don DeLillo won fiction and Bob Shacochis won first book prize for Easy in the Island.
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Carole Jalbert
Danvers
Mass
Ernie Jalbert
Emmylou Harris
Paul Kennerley
Baltimore
Y. Anthony Lukas
Boston
Lukas
Don DeLillo
Bob Shacochis
Turner rejects NBC bid for CNN over editorial control
Ted Turner refused NBC’s offer to buy 50 percent of CNN citing loss of editorial control. NBC cited journalistic oversight as a condition, while Turner and Sando said discussions continue with other buyers including Time Inc as Turner seeks funds to finance MGM UA takeover.
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Ted Turner
NBC
Cable
Art Sando
Turner Broadcasting System Inc
Ted
Lando
Turner
New York
Lawrence Grossman
NBC News
Sando
CNN
TBS
Time Inc
Mgm-Ua Entertainment Co
Woman given probation in Japan child deaths case
Fumiko Kimura a 33 year old Japanese mother received five years probation and one year in county jail with time served after pleading no contest to two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the drowning of her two children. She was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment. The case was heard in Los Angeles County Superior Court by Judge Robert Thomas.
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Calif
Fumiko Kimura
Japan
Los Angeles
Kimura
Philadelphia racial protest near interracial couple home
In a predominantly white Philadelphia neighborhood, hundreds gathered near the home of a black man and his white wife after a planned protest was canceled by neighborhood leaders. About 300 whites arrived as mounted police cordoned 22 blocks while 75 teenagers shouted to move and refused police orders.
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Philadelphia
Navy analyst arrested for passing codes to Israel
FBI arrested Jonathan Jay Pollard a 31 year old counterintelligence analyst at the Naval Investigative Service for allegedly delivering highly classified Navy and CIA documents to Israel. He was detained after attempting to enter the Israeli Embassy in Washington and held without bond pending a hearing.
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FBI
Naval Investigative Service
Navy
CIA
Israel
Jonathan Jay Pollard
Pollard
Suitland
Naval Investigative
Lydia Jechorek
U.S
Ann Henderson Pollard
Jechorek
Defense secretary orders Pentagon security check
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger ordered a top to bottom Pentagon security inspection to address vulnerabilities exposed by the Walker spy case. The review, due by October 1, follows commission recommendations for lie detector use, spy rewards, stricter background checks, fewer clearances, and tighter control of entry and foreign travel. Retired Gen Richard Stilwell, who led the panel, warned that even a few losses are very damaging.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Defense Department
Richard Stilwell
Anglo-Irish accord passes in Irish Parliament
The Irish Parliament narrowly approved the historic Anglo Irish accord by an 88 to 75 vote. Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald urged Protestant leaders in Northern Ireland to accept the pact as non coercive and not a Dublin takeover.
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Ireland
Irish Republic
Northern Ireland
Garret FitzGerald
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